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Pliny's Women

PlinyÃs Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combining detailed prosopography with close literary analysis, Jacqueline Carlon examines the identities of the women whom Pliny includes and how they and the men with whom they are associated contribute both to this presentation of exemplary Romans and particularly to his own self-promotion. Virtually all of the named women in PlinyÃs nine-book corpus are considered. They form six distinct groups: those associated with opposition to the principate; the family of PlinyÃs mentor, Corellius Rufus; his own family members; women involved in testamentary disputes; ideal wives; and women of unseemly character. Detailed analysis of each letter mentioning women includes the identity of its recipient and everyone named within, its disposition within the collection, PlinyÃs language and style, and its significance to our perception of the changing social fabric of the early principate.

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Title of ebook: Pliny's Women
ISBN: 9780511577628
parent-ISBN: 9780521761321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 11692 kb
Pages: 280
Published: 06-2009
Released online for download: 06-30-2009
Author of eBook: Carlon, Jacqueline M.

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